If you were to believe the press reports over the past 24 hours Arsenal are ready to bid for Edinson Cavani (again) and Karim Benzema has/is flying in for a medical with the club.

That’s a whole lot of striker for one club, not to mention a bucketload of cash in transfer fees and wages, so what’s going on?

Well, it’s August, that’s what.

The Cavani reports seem to stem from Spain, an unlikely point of origin for a player who is currently in France but being linked with England, while the Benzema reports seem to come from Twitter – a hotbed of nonsense at the best of times (although a goldmine for information if you have your bullsh*t filter tuned correctly).

This isn’t the first time that Arsenal have been linked with Cavani, in fact, just last summer he was a name repeatedly linked to the club by people who had no clue the Gunners were actually going after Alexis Sanchez.

There is about as much to the Cavani story as there is to the reports of the Benzema medical which, if silly season holds true to form, will see him have at least three medicals before never signing for the club. Perhaps he’s waiting for Arsenal to finish up with Yann M’Vila before he gets on the treadmill.

Karim Benzema has been linked with Arsenal all summer (Picture: Getty Images)

Arsenal may buy a new striker, but they may not, it’s impossible to tell. What we do know is that Arsene Wenger has already said: ‘We are open-minded but we are not desperate. Today we didn’t have (Danny) Welbeck or (Alexis) Sanchez, who are big players.

‘(Jack) Wilshere didn’t play as well, so we will have a good squad when everyone is back. We are open-minded but many clubs are on the market with big, big money.

‘At the moment our squad is well-balanced quality-wise and numbers-wise.

‘When you win the FA Cup final scoring four goals and score six today, it shows scoring goals is not our problem.’

Then again, something else we know for sure at this time of the year, just like you can’t trust the reports in the media, you can’t really trust what Arsene Wenger says either.

One thing I would be confident about, however, is there is no way the club are trying to buy Cavani AND Benzema.